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Hallikainen Modeling</span></b><span style="" lang="EN"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Soil
moisture plays an important role in the estimation of dielectric
properties in soil. By inverting a dielectric model, soil moisture can
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retrieved from the soil real dielectric constant (RDC).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="" lang="EN">Hallikainen Model</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">The Hallikainen model computes soil moisture from
RDC plus sand and clay
percentages.<b>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="" lang="EN">Parameters Used</span></b><span style="" lang="EN"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">The source bands used are the RDC as well as the
sand and clay percentages.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="" lang="EN">Outputs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">The soil moisture (SM) is output as a band.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN">Users can select whether to copy the input RDC
band to the output product
(default is no RDC output).</span></p>
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